skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppealToWorseProb...

Couldn't find some more official name for the "The "Children Are Starving In Africa!" argument.

Anyone willing to help out?
The people at Burger King spend two hours getting to work on public transportation and two hours getting back home. And you have six people in a two bedroom apartment.
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General Electric is actually over a century old. It was founded in 1892.[1] IBM is just over a century old, founded in 1911 (under a different name, as a merger of three existing companies).[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
A primer on sexism in the tech industry
Is it just me or does this logic not make sense? You put a lot of effort in -> you get good at it -> you become passionate about it. How do you choose what to put effort into? Answer: what you're passionate about.
Or you can sell it! http://bit.ly/ThMlgM
I left shortly before U6 came out, so couldn't speak firsthand about anything that happened afterward. A lot of nasty things have been written about the effects of the company's acquisition by Electronic Arts, and most of those things are true. The culture clash was massive.

Around the time U9 was being developed, Ultima Online was also becoming the Next Big Thing, and I imagine that splitting development resources between those two huge projects couldn't have done any good. One of them was bound to win more mindshare and attract more funding and in-house talent.

Ultima V was the very last one I played all the way through, personally, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's true for Richard as well.
I couldn't give a shit less if someone is male or female: either they can help me code&sell and they can stomach startup life (which is not for everyone, and certainly not for me in the long run) or not.

Period.

Who hires sex/gender? Big companies and organizations. Startups hire specific people who can do specific things, and, quite literally, can't afford to give much of a shit about this stuff.
Pulling the download links does nothing for users who already installed or upgraded to FF16. Leaving them vulnerable for the one day it takes Mozilla to fix this, without them even knowing that they are at risk.
Brilliant. I've longed for something like this.
A lot of lower wage people commute from a distance to work those jobs. There have been articles about this phenomenon for years:

http://peninsulapress.com/2012/08/28/low-wage-jobs-drive-sil...
Ask HN: Why is Zygna failing?
That doesn't sound like it happens ALL The time. There are hundreds (thousands?) more companies that don't pull these things.
The site looks great. Best of luck!
My nook touch has great hardware buttons and a touch screen. It's also over a year old now and still works great.
I think we're still going to use Kickstarter, but maybe we'll do ours in two places.
That kind of hokey abuse of statistics always gets me riled up. Just because cigar smokers are likely to live longer doesn't mean the habit extends longevity.

A more telling study might be to compare success rates of startups with all female teams, versus all male teams. Then at least you remove the bias of having success attract a more gender-diverse team. Although you'd probably need to correct for industry area, since I'm guessing females choose a different set of markets to go after, in aggregate.

Crappy logic aside, I actually do think the original claim that women boost startup success is probably true. It's super valuable having team members who understand 50% of the population (and ~85% of purchasers), and knowing your customers is critical.
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Be My Tech Cofounder: RV Reservation App
Since 2011 I've been traveling around the US in a RV while working on a separate startup. It quickly dawned on me RV parks have mostly remained mostly offline businesses, while customers are becoming vastly wifi-connected. I've done user validation by talking to RV park owners and customers to establish bookings as a pain point. After doing market research and studying competitors' current offerings, I decided to go all-in.

I'm looking for a technical cofounder with the technical experience to release and scale up a robust, secure, and rapid-loading booking system. I am fully committed to taking this idea from prototype to revolutionizing RV booking, and want someone who's the same. No freelancers or 10- hours-a-week people with day jobs.

Ready for review: UI mockups and a business plan with analysis of existing competitors and on what angles we'll compete, long-term roadmap broken down into MVP and milestones. 50% equity is starting point for discussion.

As for this biz cofounder, I have deep domain experience, marketing and customer development success for another startup (5000+ email signups), experience with technical teams (incl. manager of an outsourced team), competitive SEO/SEM campaigns, and fundraising interest from angels and VCs. I'm an award-winning blogger marketing my startups, and I've run e-communities with 10k+ users. I trained coworkers and employees in native billing and invoice systems for a small business. These interpersonal skills will be paramount during the outreach rush after product release.

I hustle like there's always a fire in my rearview mirror. I will do whatever needs to get done, incl. driving across North America to drive our membership. Re: "sweat equity," I believe hard work for hard work's sake is fool's gold in a startup. I pride myself on hustling to learn quickly about our customer's needs and our product's fit with said needs.

Contact: joeychang1983@gmail.com
because how a barista lives is not how a well paid programmer lives. Yes, you can exist on $15k/year, but if you're used to living on $100k/year it may as well be homelessness. If you're someone that provides value to a company you come to expect to live like you provide value. Quality of life matters, a lot.

Make ends meet != live well
The story of Nokia: some bizarre and unusual phone designs throughout the ages.
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Well, after reading the whole thing, I don't think there's anything there that wasn't already known.

Even I knew the Symbian and Maemo/Meego teams were at odds on basically everything. The way they dismissed each others' choices, it was transparent that neither org really wanted to have any conversation with the other. There was incredulity in Symbian circles that Symbian could ever go away, despite its glaring limitations and '90s architecture. The fact that they managed to sell a lot of N96, thanks to commercial agreements and huge marketing and despite the fact that it was a complete lemon of a phone, blindsided them to the rise of iOS and especially Android.

I used to be mad at Elop, but to be fair, he inherited a terrible state of things from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who was fundamentally a bean-counter and exec without a real vision or grasp of modern tech. Elop basically panicked, and called in his Microsoft friends to sort it out, which wasn't the best idea but probably not the worst either. When two CEOs in a row act stupidly, it's usually a symptom that the entire board is bad (see also: HP), so I don't expect Nokia to get back into shape anytime soon.
You're misrepresenting reitzensteinm's position, which he put clearly: "I don't disagree with the direction of your sentiment, just the magnitude of the word you are using." His comment certainly seems to have been made in good faith even if you disagree with it.

Your tone on other hand is combative and patronizing. The HN guidelines say "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names," and "Be civil."

I tend to agree with reitzensteinm that we in Silicon Valley should remember how good we have it compared to the rest of the world. Our fortune comes not only from hard work and talent, but from being born in the right decade in a prosperous country.
There are companies that do that, specially in tele marketing, call centers etc where they also track your time. Everytime you enter the kitchen, take a break, the time stops.. It starts when you are back at your desk.
1) you can use plurals, so "select from orders"

2) typically there is no single order table. Most systems will have order_summary / order_details / order_items / order_packages . Think of handling a single order that has multiple products each of multiple quantities. And to complicate, fulfillment of product quantity requires multiple warehouses / shipments.

3) you can have a table called order, you just have to ensure to escape it properly, either double quotes or square brackets. Similarly table names can have spaces in them.
I'd like to know this too. One of the main reasons I'm looking at a Kindle is to read journal articles on it.
While I agree 100% with your advice for mission-critical servers, for a dev machine I don't see the problem with the ease of curl -> sh. It takes "very very very bad idea" down to "you probably should at least check out the installer script first".
Or wrap it in tin foil for a poor-man's farady cage. You could do slightly better with one of those passport RFID shields if that didn't cut it. Whenever they want you to present it, happily do so and then put it back in its cage
Kindle Paperwhite newly implements two-finger pinch (smaller font size) and expand (bigger font size). On the way to carrying out the font size change, it pops up the font-size select window, then closes it. It's possible that you accidentally invoked this functionality.
That's reductio ad absurdum. Yes, taken to an extreme, it stops making sense, but all I'm arguing for is a little perspective on how lucky we are as gifted developers. I might be wrong, but I'm certainly not arguing just for the sake of it.

Your assertion that I support cheating employees just because I didn't explicitly say otherwise is quite insulting, and it's what makes me feel the need to reply to you. I think the deal they got it shitty, and I certainly wouldn't start taking money off the table before my employees could.

I think you're reading an attitude into my comments that just isn't there. I suggest we continue this conversation by email, to avoid polluting HN with what will no doubt be a long thread - mine is in my profile if you'd like to.
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It seems as though Kickstarter should be using this. They currently charge up to 10% for successfully funded projects. Their rationale is they use Amazon Payments to process transactions. Amazon charges 3-5% on top of Kickstarter's cut of 5%. If Stripe charges 2.9% + $.30 that still leaves a couple points on the table for either Kickstarter profits or to lower the fee for creators.
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#Wha...
I got the same feeling when I was studying physics and saw those constants! And now I still get it when I see the normal distribution. (e phreak me out more than pi)
For $250, you can by a Motorola RFID reader that can scan US Passports and many other RFID tags. There's no need to design a practical one, just buy one off-the-shelf.
The directors do have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. It's reasonable for an investor to expect directors not to waste money.

His investment did not go to zynga, it went to whatever market seller he bought it from. He is more accurately a shareholder - a part owner - rather than an investor.

It is difficult to imagine this email getting a response though.
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And using this service of course partially defeats the point of using Debian stable at all, at least for the packages that you install from backports.
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Amazon's rates are actually pretty much the same: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022
At work we had privacy training videos shown one was an employee who spoke about the mobile phone company he has service with, no names but he'll call it "Mogers".

When he signed up for service with "Mogers" they messed up his name on his bill, instead of e.g. "John Smith" they put "J ohnSmith".

Then a week or so later he starts getting junk mail addressed to a "Mr J ohnSmith".
Totally agree that this isn't a great idea on Rogers part. But it strikes me that there is a relatively easy way to detect social engineering in this case. Just give the caller ridiculous answers in response to their first few queries and see if they balk. Only someone who knows the correct answers will challenge you.

It would be really nice if there was a better way to ensure the identity of parties on either end of a phone call. In my case, an inability to remember dates causes a headache every time I try to do telephone banking where it seems to be the only type of security questions they use.
Not exactly. Only one form of methamphetamine is psychologically active, the dextrotatory enantiomer. It's different from dextroamphetamine in that it contains a methyl group that makes it more lipid-soluble, which helps it cross the blood-brain barrier more easily and protects it from being broken down by MAO enzymes.

Dexedrine is the brand name for dextroamphetamine, the dextrorotatory stereo-isomer of amphetamine.

About 75% of Adderall is dextroamphetamine. The other 25% is composed of three other amphetamine salts.

The main reason methampetamine is smokeable is because it is sold on the street in fairly racemic crystal form (i.e. it contains both the active dextrotatory and levorotatory forms). If adderall, dexedrine and other prescription amphetamine salts were sold in the same form, free of the inert binders, they'd be smokeable too.
Those were two of many examples. I have more, others have more.

It is really a problem. People have simply been conditioned to think it is normal. it may be "normal" but it is farked and wrong.
Melbourne as well, I would say.
Who wants a job, anyways?
I really hate this concept. If the education so poor that students REALLY don't want to be there, is the solution to make school become even more like a prison?

The whole education sphere really needs a large revolution. I'm not sure of the answer, but I bet there is a startup waiting to happen here.
Hopefully. I've been looking into options for fostering a small community around a new videogame, and I hate them all. Traditional forum software is much too heavy (registration, navigation), Vanilla is just strange, a subreddit is an inappropriate format (voting and the lack of long-term threads are a turnoff), and there's really not much else.

It's something that's long overdue for a shakeup.
Canadian cellphone companies are pretty much a oligopoly with 3 big players, Rogers, Telus, and Bell. All 3 of them are super expensive and locks people in on super long 3 year contracts. These companies are so shady they create multiple "discount brands" to make consumer feels like they have more choices. It's not till recently that Canadian government realized the need to create competition and auctioned off some AWS spectrum to a couple "startups", namely Wind and Mobilicity and couple other ones.
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Heartbreaking? I feel about as bad for people working at Zynga, where they spend day and night copying other web properties, as I do for those working on the Death Star when it exploded.
If you believe the distribution of cognitive abilities to be orthogonal to race/gender, why set your a priori at 0.5? I may be misunderstanding (my stats knowledge is low) but it seems you see no reason a particular statement should be true, yet assume a fifty fifty chance that it is true.
I had to talk to rogers about getting some money back after finally cutting all of my services with them.

Because my old cellphone number was the account number, they started giving me information about the Department of National Defense employee who now owns my old cell phone number.

Hows that for a security failure on Rogers' part?
You know what would be great if adapted by Goodreads?

Standard Deviation for ratings. I have a hunch that with the standard-deviation, all ratings for all books even out at 4/5. Not sure why, but I think that goodreads-users are too nice due to using real names.

Edit: Just played around with the "rating details" tab and numpy:

Magic for Beginners has a mean rating of 4.01 and a stddev of 0.99, Pirate Cinema has a mean rating of 3.85 and a stddev of 0.89, Pump Six has a mean rating of 4.11 and a stddev of 0.81, so looking at only the standard deviations, all books have a very similar rating. Interesting, but that doesn't tell me much, except that the standard-deviation is massive in this context.
Not to sound like a guy, but here goes. No.

Do male executives drive start-up success? No.

Do smart people drive start-up success? No.

Do great coders drive start-up success? No.

Do great salesman drive start-up success? No.

Does great funding drive start-up success? No.

Any or all of the above could in certain situations, but not all situations.

If you could mathematically model startup success, you'd probably end up with something that looks and feels a lot like the Google Search ranking algorithm. You'd have possibly hundreds of factors you might tweak up or down over time to try to best fit the data set, but ultimately it's not even close to a guarantee of relevance and it would require some hand tweaking of results at times to be "correct".

If someone could reliably define that you need so much of X, Y, Z factors to be the next Facebook, Google, Dropbox, or even Instagram, they would build a factory to build companies that print money. So far no company has truly built that yet.
"courtesy...extended to high school students"

That would imply that the people providing the cards for the students think of them the same way the government is forced to think about its citizens.

Unfortunately, there are few organizations doing that forcing and the courts have often sided on the side of administrators to be able to treat them as much-less-than-citizens (which is a great way to teach citizenship in our country...).
Other sources:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/Students-...

http://news.yahoo.com/san-antonio-school-district-track-stud...
If someone is actively trying to be a mitm and injecting things into your connection - you have far far worse problems than corrupted software.
It would be interesting if they upload donation statistics on what people want Ubuntu to do.
Seems like pretty stereotypical ways to view genders in the workplace. I've worked with women who are always trying to look good at someone else's expense. I've worked with men who work independently and give great feedback.

Gender has almost nothing to do with it. Your experiences are purely anecdotal.
So, I use Ubuntu as my daily driver. But, I am deeply conflicted about this. Primarily because I have heard/read that Ubuntu does not spend its money on developers (expecially core, kernel, fs) and rides on Debian and Red Hat. Secondly, until fairly recently, parts of Launchpad were closed source. Third - there are other groups like Postgres, Openssh, etc which need funding more desperately.

What will the donation amount of be used for? More marketing - which I understand is equally necessary, but unworthy for me right now - vs things like hiring and paying developers?
is like being branded with the “mark of the beast”

Actually, if I were in Texas, I would absolutely take that approach. There are enough highly-conservative Christians in the state that this approach might garner some support against the evil government wanting to "mark our children".

A little investigation shows the story is real. http://www.aclutx.org/blog/?cat=21
Will you forget to write a book if you don't have it in your todo list?
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> to stem the rampant truancy devastating the school's funding

So truancy is a part of lack of funding? There's something wrong with that picture. Texas needs to fix that issue before trying to act all fascist on their students.
It is large (much larger than the market-share of Linux on the Desktop) but it makes the previous discussions on "Linux-users are more willing to spend money than Windows-users" moot, as the percentages have shifted so much since start of the discussion.
I'm pretty excited about the possibility of having access to a decent car at a more affordable price. Hope these guys do really well.
Are you insinuating that Ubuntu is just a Debian with a different name slapped on it? If that is the case, then you must not have used Ubuntu at all.

As a Ubuntu user, I like the Ubuntu Software Center and being able to install Skype and Dropbox through it and not having to scour the web for packages compatible with my system. I like some Unity features such as the dash and the HUD, because they greatly simplify discoverability of features that I do not use on a daily basis. I like the fact that Canonical certifies Ubuntu on a variety of hardware and I can therefore purchase my next laptop or server with the knowledge that my preferred OS will work fine on it.

I could go on, but I don't think there is any need - it's pretty clear that Canonical makes a lot of things happen apart from building .deb packages.
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"Amazon should hire a world-class book designer to serve as product manager for the Kindle."

I think this comment is just about right. The Kindle team really needs to focus on making the Kindle as good as traditional books, when applicable, but better than books whenever possible. Currently the Kindle fails to be as good as books where it counts most (e.g., clarity/sharpness of text, page layout decisions [e.g., hyphens], font choices, display contrast, index functionality, TOC functionality), and it only does a decent job of employing some of the technological advantages it has over books (e.g., the Kindle has a great weight-to-content-offered ratio, it backs up your collection remotely). It kind of surprises me that the Kindle hasn't already surpassed traditional books in every way. Maybe my expectations are too high, or maybe Amazon is more concerned with the bottom line than responding to readers like me. I don't know.
And maybe a few hundred devs will struggle to pay their mortgage.

It sucks to lose your job, but there's a simple and time-honored solution to this problem: savings. It's amazing how much less you're pushed around by life when you have a year's living expenses in the bank. (It's also amazing how fast you can accumulate such a cash hoard when you consistently live below your means.)
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Feelings are not negotiable. Poor people feel poor-people problem pains, rich people feel rich-people problem pains. The problems may be different, but the intensity of the pain felt by them can be of the same magnitude.

If you're in America, have $0, can't pay rent, can't buy food for your kids; the fact that kids in Africa are dying from some non-1st world disease is completely irrelevant to the pains you're having.

It's a completely different thing for an impartial third party to say person X's pain is more than person Y's pans (that's relative to the observer).
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Alexander J. Yee, who answered the question is a student who calculated Pi to 5 trillion digits:

http://www.geekosystem.com/pi-five-trillion-digits-alexander...
The main challenge for a computation of such a size, is that both software and hardware are pushed beyond their limits. For such a long computation and with so much hardware, failure is not just a probability. It is a given.
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